When embarking on any adventure, the key to enjoyment and success is first knowing the appropriate survival skills. Entrepreneurship is an adventure, and the same principle applies. Most businesses do not survive. Why? Is it because of bad ideas? Lack of talent? Sometimes, but most of the time it's because the entrepreneur at the helm has never been educated in the foundational skills needed to survive and succeed. In The Entrepreneur's Survival Guide, author Rob Stam uses his personal story of early failure and starting over in business to teach these essential lessons in the form of Ten Keys to Survival. The Entrepreneur's Survival Guide will open your eyes to concepts that are completely new, and some you may have ignored for too long. Regardless of your experience in business to this point, you're sure to become a more well-rounded and equipped leader, better prepared for the joys and struggles you'll face on your entrepreneurial journey.

This neat, compact guide shows readers how to pilot their businesses to the top. Based on the history of Cullinet Software, Inc., Cullinane describes how his company's rapid growth--13 straight years of over 50% annual growth--led to mismanagement, a takeover, and was eventually sold for close to $400 million. The Entrepreneur's Survival Guide gives readers specific tips they can use to make the most profitable decisions for their companies.

"Insight, hope, and strategies for building a business and a family at the same time"--Jacket.

Will Your Business Be Prepared When the Bubble Bursts? Sabrin’s book is a must guide for corporate executives, managers, and business owners, for any size company; and for MBA students and executives in professional education programs and seminars to assist them better manage their companies during the boom-bust cycle. The business cycle in the United States has been characterized booms and busts for decades. But how can corporate executives and their firms not just survive--but also thrive--when economic bubbles burst? And how can small business owners steer their companies during the business cycle so they too can thrive and survive. This book is designed to give them tools and strategies to do that. After that grounding in fundamentals, readers are given specific tools and strategies that entrepreneurs and executives can use to help their companies prepare for when the next bubble bursts.

Being an entrepreneur is risky. USA Today has written that “only 1 out of 5 new businesses survive past their first year of operation.” Even fewer new businesses make it to five or ten years. Those who want to buck the odds must have persistence, resilience, and creativity to survive. An entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience knows all too well what a challenge it can be to start a business and has created a book to help budding entrepreneurs to not only build their business but to thrive. The Entrepreneur’s Survival Handbook covers challenges entrepreneurs face that are not common knowledge—or even discussed. It includes essential topics such as these: • The wisdom of hiring friends and family • The importance of an employee manual • Overcoming the fear of such a big undertaking • How to read a room • Solutions to potential problems The handbook features 52 pointers for entrepreneurs––one for each week of the year––to study and record results. Entrepreneurs can read them one by one or shuffle them like a deck of cards. This one-of-a-kind resource serves as an excellent complement to traditional business school training, allowing entrepreneurs their best chance to achieve success and build their businesses.